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នឹកដូចក្តីស្រមៃលើសអ្វីដែលនៅនឹកឃើញ
MFA 2025 THESIS EXHIBITION
ABSTRACT
I Miss You More Than I Remember You is an invocation of memory and longing, unfolding as a sensuous installation that “doubles” as a funerary procession. International remembrance observing fifty years since the Cambodian genocide on April 17, 1975, reignited discourse over narratives of historical trauma, diasporic memory, and U.S. militarism in mainland Southeast Asia.
Reflecting on personal and familial experiences of displacement and resettlement, I reframe the temporal and atmospheric poetics of Theravāda Buddhism to analogize the spatial sociality of Cambodian American refugees as stuck between “insider” and “outsider.” I posit this spatial intervention as counter-memorial, resisting the historicity of archives and gesturing towards the material ephemerality of Theravāda Buddhism, particularly by appropriating Khmer funerary cloth.
The exhibition title – I Miss You More Than I Remember You — is itself a procession of words, sensations, and intimacies, taken from a quote by Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong — further articulating the abstraction, dilution, spectrality, and attempt at replicating that which is felt. By de-historicizing mourning and grief through the affective surfaces of Buddhism, this processional installation of objects and media distills postwar intimacies to forestall futurity and renegotiate diasporic belonging.
04.14.2025–04.19.2025
Thesis Exhibition in Tjaden Gallery at Cornell University Art Department.
Credits
Installation views, I Miss You More Than I Remember You, Tjaden Gallery, Olive Tjaden Hall, Cornell University, 2025.
This exhibition is dedicated to all those lost during the genocide between 1975 and 1979 and those who continue to suffer under ongoing conflict.
I Miss You More Than I Remember You
នឹកដូចក្តីស្រមៃលើសអ្វីដែលនៅនឹកឃើញ
MFA 2025 THESIS EXHIBITION
ABSTRACT
I Miss You More Than I Remember You is an invocation of memory and longing, unfolding as a sensuous installation that “doubles” as a funerary procession. International remembrance observing fifty years since the Cambodian genocide on April 17, 1975, reignited discourse over narratives of historical trauma, diasporic memory, and U.S. militarism in mainland Southeast Asia.
Reflecting on personal and familial experiences of displacement and resettlement, I reframe the temporal and atmospheric poetics of Theravāda Buddhism to analogize the spatial sociality of Cambodian American refugees as stuck between “insider” and “outsider.” I posit this spatial intervention as counter-memorial, resisting the historicity of archives and gesturing towards the material ephemerality of Theravāda Buddhism, particularly by appropriating Khmer funerary cloth.
The exhibition title – I Miss You More Than I Remember You — is itself a procession of words, sensations, and intimacies, taken from a quote by Vietnamese American writer Ocean Vuong — further articulating the abstraction, dilution, spectrality, and attempt at replicating that which is felt. By de-historicizing mourning and grief through the affective surfaces of Buddhism, this processional installation of objects and media distills postwar intimacies to forestall futurity and renegotiate diasporic belonging.
04.14.2025–04.19.2025
Thesis Exhibition in Tjaden Gallery at Cornell University Art Department.
Credits
Installation views, I Miss You More Than I Remember You, Tjaden Gallery, Olive Tjaden Hall, Cornell University, 2025.
This exhibition is dedicated to all those lost during the genocide between 1975 and 1979 and those who continue to suffer under ongoing conflict.
